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After just one short year of Ikea bed ownership, Alan and I were fed up with randomly falling through the bed-frame at night due to shifty slats, squeaky creaky grumbling at the slightest sleepy movement, and not having a headboard and losing pillows to the crevice between the wall. This Jespersen frame had been on Craigslist for a few weeks and we decided to take the plunge into proper adult bed-frame ownership.

We couldn’t be happier with our purchase, but of course being a furniture blogger I want to know everything about it. There is limited information I could muster from the label, “Jespersen, Denmark” and think it might have simply been a Scandinavian import from the 1970’s with no designer attached. The Craigslist seller we purchased the frame from had been using the bed, but it originally belonged to her Mother. Oh well, can’t learn ’em all!

This bed was called “The Windsor Bed” and was sold by Scandinavian Gallery/Scandinavian Design of Natick, Massachusetts. It was one of the last designs sold before the retail store went through Chapter 11 in 1988.

It was very well made furntiure and I see that it is standing the test of time.

Wow, thank you for that! No wonder I’ve seen a few of them pop up on Craigslist before. Did you work with Scan. Design before or did you purchase this bed? I’m curious how you were able to recognize it!